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My computer hates me.
The camera loves me.
Art is a jealous mistress.
Wind yells while blowing.
Opportunity knocked on the door.
The sun greeted me this morning.
Snow had wrapped a white blanket over the city.
Time never waits for anyone.
Trees were dancing with the wind.
The TV sprang to life.
The radio stopped singing and continued to stare at me.
The picture in that magazine shouted for attention.
The flowers were crying for my attention.
Sun was playing hide and seek, amidst the clouds.
The car winked at me.
The lightning lashed out with anger.
The moon seemed to smile at me from the sky.
The sky was full of dancing stars.

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Answers:Similes and metaphors are comparisons
Similes use the words 'like' or 'as'
Examples: Simile: the flower was like a sunburst of light/ Metaphor: The flower was a sunburst of color
Adjectives: Anything describing a noun
Example: "GREEN plant" "SMELLy animal"
Personification: When something that is not a person is being described as a person
Example: "The wind whispered his secrets to me through the reeds"

Question:Question 1 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
_______ is a style of writing, developed in the 19th century, which attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it.
Naturalism
Tall tale
Realism
Macabre
Regionalism
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Question 2 (True/False Worth 10 points)
Local color is a term applied to fiction or poetry, which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect, and landscape.
True
False
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Question 3 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
The _______ used in Mark Twain s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer helps in portraying characters realistically.
dialect
regionalism
personification
local color
metaphor
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Question 4 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
____________________was a literary movement that produced writings focused on the individual and the hardships he faced. These writers are concerned with the world and its effects on real, ordinary people, in real places, at this present time.
Deconstructionism
Regionalism
Naturalism
Realism
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Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
The play was a _____of a vagabond's life.
dispensation
tableau
temerity
sibilant
condolence
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Question 6 (True/False Worth 10 points)
Naturalism is a style of writing that romanticizes and idealizes life.
True
False
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Question 7 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
____________________can be defined as realism taken to an extreme. This type of literature focused on man as subjected to his environment and the laws of science.
Regionalism
Naturalism
Romanticism
The Modern Movement
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Question 8 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
In Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," the character Smiley has a weakness. What is that weakness?
gambling
drinking
cursing
training animals
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Question 9 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
We discover Miss Emily Grierson has done what inexcusable crime at the end of "A Rose for Emily"?
stolen dangerous drugs from a chemist
murdered her boyfriend
murdered her butler
poisoned her cousins
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Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 10 points)
All of the following are examples of frontier dialect EXCEPT:
Arbuckle's
bedroll
cash in one's six shooter
grits

Question:Question 1 (True/False Worth 2 points)
In Thomas Paine s The Crisis, the tavern keeper at Amboy is presented in a positive light. He is a courageous, heroic Patriot who will bend to no one and nothing.
True
False
Question 2 (True/False Worth 2 points)
Squanto, a Native North American of the Pawtuxet tribe in what later came to be known as Massachusetts, became friendly with the Plymouth colonists, aiding them in their planting and fishing.
True
False
Question 3 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
What was one of the first things that Squanto taught the English?
How to roast a chicken
How to speak tribal language
How to swim
How to use fish fertilizer with their crops
How to find water in the forest
Question 4 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Why did Olaudah Equiano s two countrymen jump into the sea?
They wanted to swim
They wanted to fish
They preferred death to a life of misery
They had become insane
They had been pushed into the sea
Question 5 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered. This statement from Thomas Paine s The Crisis is an example of a/an:
allusion.
personification.
metaphor.
irony.
aphorism.
Question 6 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
In the "Declaration of Independence," Thomas Jefferson expresses his grievances against the:
King of Great Britain.
Almighty.
General Congress.
President.
army.
Question 7 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Benjamin Franklin describes Andrew Bradford's father as a:
pious man.
generous man.
wise and learned man.
naive man.
crafty old sophister.
Question 8 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
What does Thomas Paine value highly in the excerpt from his essay The Crisis ?
Freedom
Solitude
Individuality
Spirituality
Equality
Question 9 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Thomas Jefferson was governor of _______ from 1779 to 1781.
Pennsylvania
New York
Massachusetts
Virginia
Question 10 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Which is the first house in Philadelphia where Benjamin Franklin slept?
The Three Mariners
The meetinghouse of the Quakers
The house of the Reads
The Crooked Billet
The printer's house
Question 11 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Who lured Squanto and other native Americans on board and kidnapped them?
John Smith
Thomas Dermer
Thomas Hunt
John Slany
Question 12 (Matching Worth 8 points)
Match each author with the correct work.
Match Term Definition
Olaudah Equiano A) Age of Reason
Thomas Paine B) New Experiments and Observations on Electricity
Washington Irving C) History of New York
Benjamin Franklin D) Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson E) The Life of Gustavus Vassa
Question 13 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
Why was Olaudah Equiano spared the fetters on the ship carrying slaves?
He was well behaved
He was too young
He was ill
He was fishing
He had to clean the deck
Question 14 (Multiple Choice Worth 8 points)
According to Thomas Jefferson, why did the King of England dissolve representative houses repeatedly?
For lack of the required number of members
For opposing his invasions on the rights of the people
For not functioning properly
For not looking after the welfare of the people
For inciting the people against him

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English Shorts Example- Simile, Metaphor, Personification :This is a quick sample of what I want your project to look like. Pay attention to what I did NOT do well like camera focus, volume, font size, etc. so that your own video is much better.